Preparations for the Ravenclaw's annual start-of-the-season party commence. Helena considers what the night may hold as she puts the finishing touches on her appearance with a little help from her maid Elise. Expository.

Helena heads back to Hogwarts with her friends in tow, prepared for another year of being known as the Headmistress's Daughter. She nearly winds up in trouble on her first night back, but something unexpected occurs.

Helena's mother makes further arrangements for Helena's future, and Helena takes up a penchant for law books.

Helena discovers that the classroom she chose to hide in is not entirely empty. Later, she meets up with Olivia and Benjamin and the three discuss the state of her friendship with Priscilla.

Helena is forced to attend the Professors' Halloween party, and is unsure what to think when her mother pushes her into dancing with an unexpected partner. Later, plans are made for Halloween night.

After leaving the party, Benjamin shows an interest in Priscilla that angers Helena. She runs off (as she is prone to do) and finds herself alone in a frightening forest. Luckily, she finds truth and solace in the arms of a friend.

Helena visits Olivia and the Baron, who are being held in the new healing-center St. Mungo's (five hundred years later, it would become a modern wizarding hospital). Her friend is not doing well, and Helena's worry leads to arguments with her mother, who still appears to be planning for an arranged marriage.

Olivia returns from the hospital wing only to discover that much has gone on in her absence. Benjamin and Helena are entirely distant with one another, and his lowly actions have cause all to treat him with dismay (even Priscilla and Xiyung). But Helena has yet to discover his sneakiest act yet, and when she discovers what trouble he has sown she will never be able to look at him the same way again.